Chapter 125: Family Chronicles
After eating lunch with a heavy heart, Long Yun wanted to be alone.
It just so happened that Shangguan Ling didn't want to go back to the room to rest in the afternoon, so he asked him to accompany him to the manor's library for a while.
Walking on the path leading to a building next to the main building of the villa, the dull feeling in the restaurant just now gradually disappeared, and the faint smell of grass in the air made Long Yun feel a little refreshed.
In such a manor, there is even a database dedicated to the collection of books and documents, and it seems that it has indeed been for quite a few years.
Walking into the interior of the three-story building, Long Yun felt a chill in the hall. I remember that the buildings in this manor are rarely equipped with air conditioning, probably because of the design of the old buildings, and probably the cooling effect of the basement.
Looking up, the high atrium is surrounded by a wood-fenced ring corridor, and neat bookshelves can be seen on each floor. Of course, these should be general old books, and as for those rare and rare books, according to Shangguan Ling, they are all stored in a closed bookshelf in the basement.
Following Shangguan Ling up the stairs, Long Yun picked up a place by the window and pulled out a chair and sat down.
Sitting down in the cool stackar, Long Yun felt that there was nothing to do at first, and he was soon immersed in the earth-shattering discoveries of the morning again, but reason told him that he could no longer go around in circles.
But what if you don't want to?
Temporarily fabricating the story of a drug dealer did let him get rid of the pain of thinking temporarily, but he himself was not very confident. Sitting a little tired on the wooden chair by the window, feeling the wind blowing through the hall, Long Yun gradually formed an idea, he felt that this was the only thing he could do now.
If, only if, the bullet was really fired in a parallel world, then there should be more than one such trace. In other words, they had just fought in a parallel world, and if these events would have left their mark on reality, then he should be able to find some other evidence in the Brittany estate.
Maybe just twenty-three years ago, this was indeed a branch of the CIA, and there was indeed a fierce battle?
History textbooks and literature may not all be reliable, and Long Yun is still very clear about this. The only thing he could do now was to see for himself whether this idea was correct or not.
Thinking of this, Long Yun got up and walked towards Shangguan Ling with some hesitation, thinking about whether to wake her up from reading.
The bookstall was on the table and looked fascinated, Shangguan Ling's expression was calm, only his eyelashes fluttered twice from time to time. Seeing such a scene, Long Yun couldn't help but feel a little crazy, he stood beside Shangguan Ling like this, and after a while, he couldn't make a sound to call her; Until she breathed a sigh of relief and inadvertently looked up.
"Ahh Suddenly, there was an exclamation, Shangguan Ling's body trembled, and both of them were startled by each other.
"What the hell! You're scaring me, Long Yun! What are you doing standing here? ”
"I, I ......"
Coming back from the sluggishness just now, Long Yun became clumsy, and he didn't know what happened to him just now. Is it worried about disturbing her reading and being reprimanded? Or are you confused by this girl's demeanor?
"If it's okay, just say it, and if it's okay, don't be so scary."
"Oh! That's the case," Long Yun noticed that he suddenly stopped stammering, "Miss Shangguan, you and Kamili are good friends, do you know the history of their family?" Did their family live here all along? ”
"This?" Shangguan Ling thought about it, probably not finding any answer in his memories, "I don't know either." Why is this so, you ask? ”
Faced with the questioning, Long Yun was a little speechless, he felt that his request was indeed a bit unreasonable. But curiosity, or fear of the event, had taken over his mind, and without thinking, another rambling bunch of nonsense came out casually.
"Actually, I think the architectural style of this manor house is very interesting. You see, the building we are staying in now is typical of the Rococo style. But the main villa has a bit of a romantic style, mixed with some vintage designs from the Renaissance, isn't it interesting? I tentatively speculated that the building was older than the main building, and I wanted to ask if the family had always been the owners of the manor, just to investigate. ”
Sure enough, when such a bunch of clouds and foggy words came out, Shangguan Ling's eyes widened, and he seemed to look at him a few times in confusion.
This Long Yun, isn't he a pilot who just got his pilot's license? But these days, it feels like he has dabbled in a wide range of things: history, weapons, architectural styles; I don't know what this person is usually doing, it's okay for him to be cranky like this, right?
"-Oh," was a little convinced by Long Yun's foolishness, Shangguan Ling stood up and looked at it. "Actually, you don't have to ask Camille and the others. Here are the chronicles and other details of their Steele family, and I can check them out for you. ”
With Shangguan Ling, who was proficient in many Chinese, helped, Long Yun couldn't ask for it, and he quickly and diligently helped her take out those old documents from the Wen Jiàn cabinet and briefly check them one by one.
But in the end, hearing the conclusion given by Shangguan Ling, Long Yun was a little confused.
"Don't you care about the ownership of this manor? From the 18th century onwards, with the exception of the Vichy regime (a French puppet regime supported by Nazi Germany during World War II), the estate belonged to the Steele family without interruption. ”
Such an answer made Long Yun feel a little inexplicably relieved, but also a little faintly disappointed. Perhaps still unwilling, he asked further:
"Well, in the nineteenth ...... In the 90s, was there an armed conflict or a strict policing incident? ”
"Armed conflict?" Shangguan Ling looked at Long Yun's face, she felt that this question was really weird, "This is going to ask the sheriff, but what are you asking for?" Studying the style of the building, but also considering the violence that has occurred in the vicinity of the building? - Oh, I see, you're studying that dug bullet. - But what are you studying the bullet for? I mean, are you an agent sent by the state to carry out a mission? Does it mean that I'm just a prop for you to infiltrate France, and now I'm unconsciously assisting you in investigating an unsolved case from many years ago? ”
Obviously, the more he talked, the more outrageous it became, Shangguan Ling closed the old files in his hand, and got up to face Long Yun with some excitement.
"Long Yun, please stop thinking nonsense. How about doing the promising job of a security guard first? ”
"Ah, this-" Long Yun was completely stunned by Shangguan Ling. He looked at Shangguan Ling with round apricot eyes and undulating chests in a daze, and the slight anger not only did not damage the beautiful face, but added a bit of heroic posture.
Thinking that his request was indeed a little unreasonable, Long Yun waved his hand lightly, asking her not to be so excited.
"Okay, I see."
It seems that the character of this eldest lady is really strong.